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My son bagged a beautiful buck on Tuesday morning on my property. I am very happy for him and very proud of him. And, of course, he learned everything he knows about deer hunting from his father!

took this deer last evening. short recovery about 80 yards. rage dose it again. it has a 15 inch spread and estimated weigh of about 160. my son saw it in the woods but smelled him and came out in the field to me. 28 yards

'Tis the season to start seeing new bucks passing through the area. Got pics of the first mature buck of the season! Always an exciting time! Posed nice for me too! Was even kind enough to pass by 2 different cams!

This carving took my wife and I a little over an hour but was worth it in the end. Now time for roasted pumpkin seeds!!

You sure like to stir the pot. Thanks for telling me what gun I can use. I guess a really old article is all the proof we need.

Not to be picky, but it is the 30/40 KRAG. The name comes from its Krag-Jorgenson action. It was the first bolt action rifle that saw general use in the US military. Good medium game cartridge. The power level is between the 30-30 and the 30-06. It was our military cartridge for a fairly brief time, falling between the Trapdoor Springfield (45-70) and the 1903 Springfield ( 30-03 and then 30-06)..

No need for underkill either.

...and here we go

first yote of the year and again with a bridger #2 dogless at a dirt hole with high honors and some tko 3 traps out and 1 connected I put another set about 15 feet away and reset the original set ..20 lbs male

Every year the night before gun opener I tell the wife it's good luck to have sex . Some year it'll work

I know someone that can crack it for you - but you will have to wait 4-6 more years.

That is a very private subject I am not willing to discuss in public

Hello everyone and thank you for the kind words. I am the person in the pictures and to answer a couple of questions I am coming up on 30 years old and I have shot several deer with a bow. I was lucky and fortunate enough to get my first buck with a bow my first ever season at 14 years old, but this is my largest buck to date and to get him with a bow just makes it that more special. I do not know the age or weight on the deer, but he is an absolute trophy to me regardless. I posted the story on a different forum so I will copy and paste it below and then will follow it up with some more pictures. Story: Let me start off by saying that I've been in a slump and I went deerless last year for the first time ever (minus the years I was away in the Army). I hunt hard, getting in the woods practically every afternoon I can, seeing as the overnight shift I work allows me to do so, and I also spend my mornings on my days off in the woods. Last year I watched bow season, then gun season, then late muzzleloader season slip away with not even a shot opportunity on a doe, although I did pass on a small year and a half buck early in bow season. Then this past spring slipped away with no turkey to show for my time. It was getting discouraging and tough to handle with all the hours I put in the woods, but I didnt let it get me down and told myself I'd make up for it once next season comes around. Moving on to this fall, I jumped right back into hunting hard and saved up all my vacation time for deer season (last year I had to use it all for my wedding/honeymoon). I've been out pretty much every afternoon since October 1st, and every morning when I'm off (I work a continuous 4 days on 2 days off rotation). I started my vacation days on October 21st and am off until November 4th, and I also took off the first week of gun season. I've been seeing plenty of deer but have not been able to get anything in range besides a button buck, a small fork horn, and a doe that probably was about the size of my rottweiler. So yesterday morning comes, and as I'm about to leave the house I decide to open up a bottle of Tinks 69 that I bought to use once the pre-rut/rut started because I saw some scrapes popping up in the past few days and it is getting to the end of October. Poured a little in a fresh scent bomb and headed to the spot I've been hunting in the mornings, even though I have only seen one deer (button buck) there so far this year. The spot is a section of pretty open hardwoods and the stand is on the intersection of an ATV trail that I rode on as a kid and an old and overgrown tractor path that was used in the past by a farmer to cut through the woods and get from a crop field on one side to the field on the far side. I walked as silently as a I could to my stand and got in there before dawn. I hung up the scent bomb on a limb near a shooting lane and climbed into the ladder stand. Within 10 minutes I hear leaves crunching and can just make out the silhouette of a deer coming up the tractor path. It wasnt quite light enough to shoot yet but I get myself ready as the deer approaches and I see it is a small 4 point. He walks directly to the scent bomb, sticks his nose in it, then starts circling and looking around. He then starts making a scrape about 15 yards away from me and rubbing his head on branches for a few minutes, then he casually strolls away through the woods. About 20 minutes later I hear that amazing sound again and see another deer coming in the same path. This time it was a small spike. He walks up and as he is walking by my scent bomb he startles and jumps and runs about 10 yards. Then he starts creeping towards it and sniffing, with his neck stretched out trying not to get too close. He takes baby steps up to it, sticks his nose in it, then starts milling around underneath me for a while. Eventually he walks off and the woods got quiet again. 8:00 comes around and as I'm scanning I catch movement on the same path and I immediately saw the antlers. I get to my feet and grab my bow and get ready, starting to shake as I realized how nice this buck was. He is near my scent bomb and curling his lip, but his vitals are behind some small branches and leaves. He begins walking around the branches and I start drawing my bow. He stepped out in the open before I finish drawing and he catches my movement and his head promptly swings facing straight at me as I'm coming to full draw. I put my pin where I wanted it and punched the release as fast as humanly possible and watch him start ducking as the arrow makes its way to him. The arrow ends up lodging right under his spine and drops him, and I promptly put another one center lungs just to make sure. This is my best buck ever and my first nice one with a bow

A lot of my female peers my age and younger are getting into hunting. People used to hunt primarily for subsistence (putting a meal on the table). As modern agriculture, farming, electric refrigeration, and food transport became available in the last century or so, getting safe and 'easy' meats has become less of a hunting and farming issue and more of a 'go to the store' issue. Of course people do still hunt for the table but a lot of people have come into the sport for other reasons now that it's not so necessary in order to feed a family, and reasons to hunt today vary widely. That's awesome too. But I think we are starting to see a swing back into hunting for the table with the newer generations. People my age and younger are getting fed up with the commercial food supply and want to take direct responsibility for our carnivorous habits. People are wanting to get back to their roots and source food more carefully. It's why a lot of younger people are getting back into farming, gardening, raising poultry, etc. Just in the last five years I have seen a handful of my lady friends (most younger than I am) become very interested and passionate about hunting, and a few of them have taken it up in earnest. More than a dozen friends now farm either a little (or a lot!) and raise chickens, and one has plans to raise yaks and other large herbivores. Interest in being responsible for our own food is slowly growing with some younger people. Will it be enough? I don't know, only time will tell. For every younger person that is becoming more interested in the basics (farming, hunting, etc), there are probably two that are glued to computers or video games and don't get outside much. But hope isn't gone just yet.... Something all of us experienced hunters can do is, if we have time and are able, to try to take someone under our wing if they express interest. A child, a friend, a cousin, a neighbor's friend's cousin; hunting can be very overwhelming and intimidating to get into if you are not raised with it. Mentoring someone can have a much higher 'conversion rate'. It doesn't need to take a lot of time... just helping someone get on the right track, and maybe helping them once to learn butchering. I am not trying to play the 'gender card' but a lot of girls feel especially intimidated about getting into this. Not because they are girls, necessarily, but because there is still a large stigma against female hunting (mostly by non-hunters). We all know the pressure that anti-hunters are putting on us. It's only getting worse as time goes on. Ladies often get the double pressure of antis, but also mockery because we have a different gender. "But you're a girl" or "Nice shot, for a girl" are often said in jest, but they can do real harm to beginners. I was ridiculed often in school and was treated outright cruelly by (ironically) other girls especially-- most notably vegetarians (but I won't get into that here). My point is, if you have the ability and the will to do so, giving someone new a little guidance can change their life!

Picture of my Father in law over the back door. You go through this door out to the woods, everyone says his name. He has been gone 3 years and loved to hunt and fish.

Now we know where you and your Dad got all the money to go on those expensive hunts each year!

My first yote of the year..love Nightowl lures. Caught on open season

Thats what its all about right there. Here is hoping he finds a hot lady during daylight hours and she takes him for a walk past your favorite stand!

Whenever I find trash in the woods, cig butts, cans, candy wrappers, etc., I always pick it up. If I pass something knowingly, I always turn around and go back and get it. I always think the man upstairs will appreciate having his carpet cleaned and send a buck my way. I always seem to get at least one deer a year with that practice.

Say it ain't so.........a 375 Ouch & Ouch on a deer? A fellow would have to be a real dipstick to do THAT. Sako Deluxe 375H&H, PA monster buck & stud. Circa 1996 or so...... Put that in your pipe and smoke it .

I am with Biz. I would have had that thing open before the ink dried on the documents.

If your name tells us anything, you must be a master at it!! LOL

A low hit near the sternum (chest) will cause blood from the skin to flow, and put white fatty slime on the arrow. Trouble is, when skin and sternum are the only things cut, it bleeds well for a shot distance, then clots up and stops.

Screen your fields with trees shrubs abd tall grasses.or log brush piles giving trees time to grow(spruce do well and grow fast. You say patroled but is the driveway chained? that is a sure sign no one is there.your better off getting someone to drive in and out leaving tracks, timers on lights in windows. tv is good as it causes flickering, i winter junk car in driveway, motion lights set to go off if some one is spotting or a good flood light right back at them. i love to pull up in a car behind them and have highbeams on and write plate numbers down. And i agree spot lighting should be illegal there is no need or benifit from it. (and there are distance its not allowed by buildings already.)

Was that called for? One thing to disagree, another to bring name throwing in and sexuality attacks. Pretty lame in my opinion.

Law enforcement. If you own land, you will spend the rest of your life chasing people off. A whole lot of cameras to catch anyone coming on or going off and prosecute all you can. If there is no consequences for their actions, the actions will not stop.

I always carry my Dad's lucky knife, its well over 100 yrs old and has been sharpened so much the blade is just about gone, that knife has gutted more deer in its life than I can possibly fathum.

The 308 was my weapon of choice for the majority of the years i hunted. One day I shot a buck quartering away at 270 yds. Result was a hole in one lung,liver, and a broken front leg. 150 yds later I found him dead. that was at least 100+ yds further than I have ever had to track any of my dear shot with a rifle. Switched to the 300win mag after that. I will even go on the record and agree that 200 yd + shots make up probably less than 10% of my shots, but why not? Most deer I shoot now, that are 100 yds or closer (90%), drop in their tracks. Probably an average of 30 yds less tracking..lol.. Bottom line IF you can shoot it accurately why not?

i'd forget the scrape and find a spot closer to bedding.95% scraping done at night...you can hunt the sign or hunt the deer..i prefer to hunt the deer

I am very confused as to how you can say the 35whelen as an "acceptable" cartridge but say the 30-06 is arguably over kill. You do realize that a 35 whelen is a 30-06 necked up to .35 right?

A rifle is just a tool used to do a job. Each rifleman decides what he needs to take the animal he is after. Yes, there is such a thing as over kill. There is also such a thing as not enough gun. Nobody can dictate what a man uses for his hunt. It's a choice only he can, and should, make. Someone can disagree with what another man chooses as his hunting rifle, but in a free society, that's his choice to make. Lord help us all if we ever have our choices dictated to us any more than they already are.

OK, here's the plan...... ...never mind, I'll fill you in when I get there. Don't worry, the coffee and donuts are on me this time! Damn, what a buck!

I like to shoot the whitetails that are as big as moose so i will keep Mr Wby. lol

Aahh I dont like to chase em. My 270. is perfect for me.

Wait for perfect conditions and get as close to his bed as possible. Rain will quiet the leaves. I would do it ASAP, his routine will be all out of whack soon. And when you get closer, sit between his bed and where you believe he's headed with the wind in your favor.

I have a lifesaver in my bagtag holder that my daughter gave me for good luck one year..........it's 21 years old now.

which part, the having sex or getting a deer?

In the past three years the number if females taking both my gun and bow classes has been at least 50 percent and most higher. I hope it continues

First catch of the year a 19 lb coon in a dirt hole with a bridger #2 dogless 4 traps out 1 left to check

They will shoot anything with no regard to season. Everything is open 365 days a year. (maybe Sunday excluded)

I finally found their rules and it was an inch as well.....nice he e-mailed to ask before entering it just to make sure...

Where are you located. ...and as far as them tearing down the signs as long as you can prove they were up the dec have rules about that too...plus if you catch them tearing it down that's a whole different charge....good luck to you.

I shoot 180gr bullets. When i was doing my initial search of 30-06 I saw that the 180gr had the most kinetic energy then all the other grains.

Back on the 17th of October, a decent sized bruin gave me a good shot. They seem to love the creek bed on the private property I hunt in the West Cameron. An area I've hunted for years. This is my 3rd from this particular drainage.

Mine is when I forget to take my knife with me lol. Seems when I forget it Im succesful, yet when I have it Im going home with all my tags in my pocket. Heck I have bought so many knives from forgetting one you think they would be falling out of the truck on the ground when I open the door, but nope I can never seem to find one when I need it. I have tried forgetting one on purpose but that doesnt work either. I have to literly just plain forget it not pretend too. LMAO

Yes Im serious there is one in the gun cabinet. Its my fathers gun, I used it a while back to shoot it and he told me to hang on to it. Those old steel buttplates sure do put a hurt on the shoulder.

Bolt actions with threaded barrels are legal in NY still. But you can't put a silencer on it.

Good luck! Be safe, hope you have a great year!

That's why he's gotta be able to move it....lol

If the name calling doesnt stop, this thread goes bye bye. Last time I ask.